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DESIGN COLLLECTION N°1
A SMALL SELECTION OF DESIGNS FROM 2021-2023
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WAP KONN JÒJ!

The 5th Anniversary edition of Mach-Hommy’s Wap Konn Jòj! features a Deluxe felt-style jacket with new artwork illustrated by me. Foil stampted and limited to 187 copies, you can purchase a copy exclusivly at zotanica.com

Mach-Hommy is a Haitian-American rapper whose work often centers around Haitian history and identity.

His album entitled Wap Konn Jòj! deeply reflects the struggles surrounding independence, colonization, and revolution and for this design, I wanted to highlight this. I utilized elements from CL James novel about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian

revolution, The Black Jacobins, to create a sense of historical significance and importance. The album cover itself shows Mach-Hommy dressed in traditional military garb and I wanted to keep this element in both of my designs, specifically the tricorne hat. Because I wanted to make this as a piece of album promotion, I looked to the history of gum or glue posters often seen plastered across city streets. This gives the designs intent and texture to allow for historic wear that is as bold as the Haitian flag that dons Mach-Hommy's face.

Mach-Hommy is one of hip-hop’s most fascinating recent success stories, adopting the unlikely art of rarity to disrupt the so-called rap game. Releasing his music directly to listeners and never revealing his face or identity, Mach has drawn widespread praise for crafting street poetry instilled with a sophisticated texture and palpable wisdom. Wap Konn Jòj! is another priceless solo collection from Haitian-American rapper, featuring apperances by Earl Sweatshirt, Tha God Fahim, Quelle Chris, and Your Old Droog, plus beats by Alchemist, Preservation, Trellion, and Navy Blue.




 
COVER ART

In one of my design courses at the University of Arizona, we were given a prompt to make a cover for a piece of media. I chose to make a DVD cover for one of my favorite films, Coonskin, by Ralph Bakshi. Coonskin is a movie that tackles America’s history with minstrelsy and blackface specifically in animation. This extremely subversive and satirical film understands and creates conversations about racist portrayals in media, specifically in the mid 20th century. With all of this in mind, I decided to repurpose a Minstrel era advertisement. Distorting the figure’s face and head allows for the perception of blackface and minstrelsy to, literally, be put on its head, which is something the film itself exemplifies. With such a large, glaring, and distorted depiction of blackface as the cover’s centerpiece, I chose to juxtapose it with a classic serif typeface. I wanted this design to subvert societal norms that often hide the disgusting history of blackface by forcing the viewer to look at it in its plentiful eyes.
Below are other examples from the same assignment.

PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION N°1
A SMALL SELECTION OF PHOTOS TAKEN 2015-2024
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